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Hi Sanket,

No where does it mention use can't use rel canonical for cross domain?

Can you give your reasons why you should not display this?

Hi Sanket,

Why can't I use it cross domain?, I am trying to tell Google that the original source of this content is the .co.uk website

Thanks for all your responses, I never knew wordpress could cause so many issues.

Thanks again.

Hi Sanket,

Yes, if you click on the title, however just below the title where you have this:

health > menopause

If you click on one of the above it takes you to the .co.uk site.

Hope the above makes sense.

Hi there,

I have a .co.uk & .ie website both have the exact same content, only differences is the UK website is selling the product in pounds and the Irish website is selling in Euros plus both websites have different contact numbers.

I decided to use rel canonical on the .ie pointing to the .co.uk website as I think it was having an issue in my SERPs for the .co.uk website in Google.co.uk, anyway since doing this, I am seeing strange things happening in SERPs for my keywords, for example if you click the link below, my website is number 2 for 'hot flushes' if you hover over or click on 'health or 'menopause' in the breadcrumbs in SERPs it takes you to the .co.uk website, is this normal?

Click here

Hi George,

That's fantastic!

I also noticed in the "Taxonomies" tab there is an option "Format" do you know what this is?

Thanks

Hi Rebekah,

Thanks for the link. I have installed the plugin however I can't find the option to noindex tags?

I have just ran a report on SEOMOZ and it's came back saying I have over 1000 pages on my website with duplicate content, I thought wow that's not good, however when I looked at the report it was counting duplicate content because I have used more than one tag on a blog post, for example the blog post:

www.example.com/blog-post/

Has the tags

example 1

example 2

example 3

Meaning I have these URLs

www.example.com/blog/tag/example-1

www.example.com/blog/tag/example-2

www.example.com/blog/tag/example-3

All 3 URLs above have the same content as www.example.com/blog-post/ because of the tags, is this a problem?

Thanks

Yes, this makes total sense why the .ie website is still ranking.

Regarding the drop for a lot of my keywords, some of them were positioned top 3, and now nowhere to be seen, no even in the index. The pages have still kept there PR but as far as SERPs go, nowhere.

I was ranking for some keywords (top 10) without any link building at all, only a few right enough, however these keywords are nowhere to be seen in the SERPs, why would Google penalize these keywords if it was Penguin 1.1?

Some keywords are still ranking, but overall very poor.

Looking at my traffic from Google at the end of May beginning of June, my daily traffic halved.

I have look at this page: http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change I see the penguin 1.1 was rolled out at this may what have hit my SERPs

Regarding the canonical is it said by using this, for example on the .ie website, the website should not rank anymore, do you why this is not the case?

Hi Derek,

Most of the keywords dropped end of May. Around 60-70 keywords dropped, however looking at the bigger picture I think it was probably an algorithmic change rather than the duplication issue.

However I thought I would test this by using the rel canonical on the .ie website just to see if my keywords would recover for the .co.uk website, however it's been more than a month since this was implemented and there has been no change.

Do you think I should remove the rel canonical?

Thanks Derek.

Yes, I came across this video before we actually went live with the .ie website and this video made me decide that is should not be an issue, however before I placed the rel canonical on the .ie website if I copied and pasted a paragraph of text into Google.co.uk it would be the .ie website that would appear in the listings not the .co.uk, I'm not sure how much of a signal that is to say there could be duplication issues?

However, if you were searching for a specific keyword in Google.co.uk, it would always should the .co.uk website not the .ie website

The reason I placed the rel canonical on the .ie website pointing to the .co.uk website is that I saw a drop in rankings for the .co.uk domain, however the canonical has been on the .ie website for quite sometime (Well just over 1 month) and there has been no improvement to the rankings in the .co.uk website, so can I be clear in saying that the drop in rankings is not because of the duplicate content?

Thanks

Hi Derek,

Yes, I have read this before.

Did you have a look at both websites?, do you think there could be an issue with duplicate content? As a precaution I have used rel canonical on the .ie website pointing to the .co.uk website as this is the preferred domain.

Now normally but using the rel canonical, the .ie website would not rank in Google.ie, however the .ie is still ranking well.

Thanks

I pasted:

"http://www.avogel.co.uk/"

Into Google.ie and it's the .ie version that appears, was this what you got? If so would you say everything is ok?

Ah! Ok.

In terms of Geographic this is done for both countries, in fact Google recognised this automatically in webmaster tools, there was no need to change anything.

The article talks about:

Meta Content:

Declaring a meta content attribute helps make it easier for engines to understand which language is being targeted. This also makes it easy to make it clear which version of a language is being targeted. For example, the UK version of English is shown below.

As the article is about 3 years old now, is the above irrelevant? I am using hreflang tags on both websites:

Is there any need to do a noindex on the .ie website?

Any feedback is appreciated.

Hi Admin,

Why has Donnie's comment been deleted?

Thanks

Hi there,

I have 2 websites, one being .co.uk the other .ie, both websites have the exact same content and both websites using the English language, is there any point in using the hreflang?

UK Version

Irish Version

Thanks for any feedback

Hi Donnie,

No, not Google places, just normal SERPs

I have heard about optimizing for mobile search, but not actual seeing a case study on best practice.

Hi there,

My website when searching via mobile is now showing the mobile version of the site in SERPs, well for quite sometime now to be honest, anyway the ranking in mobile are no different to what they are on desktop, is there actually anything I can do to influence my mobile SERPs? 9 times out of 10 it's desktop websites that are ranking about me in mobile search.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry Robert, that site was just an example.

If you click here

We should be listed no.2 for hot flushes

Domain is avogel